Lost amongst the explosions and SFX is a half decent story

Rating: 4/10 (10 January 2008)

What is essentially an otherwise good story of the struggle man endures simply for freedom is tarnished by Bay's insistence of blowing up everything in sight in the process. McGregor, in typically consistence form begins to realise that his Utopian yet oppressive futuristic bubble is merely a front for a big a larger scheme. But his journey is punctuated by mind-numbing action that detracts so much from the actual story that you forget what you were watching in the first place. Scarlett Johansson's character, in a similar position; has very little to do other than scream and have sex with McGregor. Sean Bean, is the vindictive scientist who provides some (and the word 'some' is stressed) reasoning to the film. Whilst it had potential to be good, it merely falls under average as what plot is simply destroyed by Bay's eagerness with a fuse.